“In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.”
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“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”
“Poor little foal of an oppressèd race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”
“Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread.”
“Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are.”
“Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots.”
“Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time.”
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.”
“True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”